Recent sightings 22nd - 25th June
Highlights include Painted Lady butterfly, Redshank and Teal
British Steel Hide
Recently spotted over the saline lagoons has been Redshank, Black-tailed Godwit, up to 10 adult and 26 juvenile Lapwing which we believe to have come over from the millennium wetlands. On the Dafen Scrapes have been Shoveler, Tufted Duck, Shelduck and Gadwall, Mediterranean Gull, and Goldfinch.
On the freshwater lagoon has been Mediterranean Gull, Tufted Duck with ducklings, Pochard and Teal.
Millennium wetlands
On Deep Water Lake have been 50+ Black-tailed Godwit, Pochard with Ducklings, Shoveler, Tufted Duck with ducklings, Gadwall, Shelduck, Little Grebe, Grey Heron and 5 Mediterranean Gulls. The Mute Swans around the reserve are still doing well, with 10 cygnets on Deep Water Lake and 8 on the Lilly Pond. Great Spotted Woodpecker was seen around the pond walk area on the northern loop.
Numerous Painted Lady butterflies have also been seen around the reserve, in the flower meadows past the water lab and at Hopkin's Folly.
